Have you noticed how many gaudy hotels and
restaurants boast of palm fronds and picket fences made of cement? Well here’s
something to please the aesthetic and environmentalist in you. New Wind, a
research and development company from France has developed new wind turbines
that are shaped like trees.

Based on the look and feel of a tree, these wind
turbines have additional advantages – they actually need less wind than a
traditional turbine to produce an equivalent amount of power, and are silent.
Standing nearly 36 feet tall, these turbines have 72 artificial leaves, which
in reality are micro turbines that spin silently, producing more than 3100
watts of power.

Entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière invented the turbines and got
inspiration from noticing how leaves on a tree trembled as the wind passed
through them. These turbines are a great way to supply power to the urban world
by installing them in parks as well. They blend into the scenery and pass the
aesthetic test with flying colours!

Michaud-Larivière,
meanwhile is set to show off his invention this May at the Paris Place de
Concorde.

At Sustainable
Green Initiative, we plant trees to help the fight against climate change
and also hunger, poverty and rural migration. By planting a tree through
us you can help in doing your bit to mitigate your carbon footprint.

Did you know a
treesequesters about 1 ton of carbon and processes enough oxygen for
two peoples requirements in its
life-time?